Car chases and crashes have long been a part of the moviemaking culture and iClone physics can help you simulate crashing into items:
1. Open a new blank project.
2. Double-click on the Infinite Plane in the Physics folder of the Props button to load the plane so our boxes won't fall through the floor.
3. Double-click on the Box_001 prop located in the 3D Blocks folder in the Content Manager to load it into the scene.
4. With the Box_001 prop selected, open the Multi-Duplicate dialog by pressing the button on the top toolbar or using Shift + D.
5. Enter the following info into the input boxes.
Duplicates: 10
Move: X=105, Y=0, Z=0
Rotate: X=0, Y=0, Z=0
Scale: X=100, Y=100, Z=100
6. Click on OK to close the dialog box and create the duplicates.
The following image shows the Multi-Duplicate dialog box:
7. Select all the boxes either by using the Select tool and drawing a marquee around them, or by selecting them in the Content Manager.
8. Open Physics Object Settings by clicking on the button or using Shift + F9, if it's not already open.
9. With all the boxes selected, check the Active Physics checkbox on Physics Object Settings.
10. Choose Frozen as the state. Leave the mass and other settings as they are.
11. With all the boxes still selected, hold down the Ctrl key and move the stack of boxes up until a new set of boxes are created and place them on top of the original set using the move gizmo. Repeat the process until we have a stack of 8 boxes high by 11 boxes wide as in the following image:
We multiplied one box out to eleven boxes then duplicated that row of boxes until we had a stack of boxes 8 high by 11 wide.
We set the state on the boxes to frozen to hold them in place, otherwise, they might topple in to a giant pile of boxes!
We can always change the state of the boxes by selecting them in mass to make the change.